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The looming logic of eugenics in Canada / MI 244

ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:

Medically-assisted death. It’s a controversial subject  to say the least, precisely why any effort to legislate it has proven just as contentious. So it is in Canada, where laws have been challenged and critiqued, both in and out of court, as either too broad, too narrow or even both, depending on who’s doing the talking—and whom they’re talking about. And with the federal government poised to re-codify medical assistance in dying (MAID), there are those concerned the law’s expansion of access to it will do more harm than good, and that the gap between intent and outcome will see those already put at risk placed into even greater peril.

One such critic is Andray Domise (aka Q), who in a recent Globe and Mail editorial argued that proposed changes to the law risk the reinscription of the Canadian colonial logic of eugenics. And Q is our special guest this episode, joining host/producer Rick Harp and roundtable regular Ken Williams, assistant professor with the University of Alberta’s department of drama.

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LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:

• Quebec court strikes down restriction to medically assisted dying law, calls it unconstitutional The Globe and Mail

• "Indigenous people with disabilities in Canada: First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit aged 15 years and older" Statistics Canada

• UN experts alarmed by trend toward assisted dying for non-terminal conditions CTV News

• As Bill C-7 reaches Senate, UN watchdog raises concerns about MAiD for persons with disabilities As It Happens

• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) United Nations

• Canada’s shameful history of sterilizing Indigenous women The Conversation

• The coerced sterilization of Indigenous women New Internationalist

• Heidi Janz on University of Alberta and ResearchGate

• "The Latimer Case: The Reflections of People with Disabilities - Media" Council of Canadians with Disabilities

• Canada's halfway measures on assisted dying fail the mentally ill Maclean's

• End of Life Decision Making The Royal Society of Canada

• Assisted-dying bill sends wrong message to young Indigenous people, advocates argue The Globe and Mail

• [Senator] Petitclerc recounts her own experience with disability in final MAID bill debate The Globe and Mail

• Senate passes amended version of assisted dying bill after days of debate CBC News

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